Франциядағы АҚШ елшілігінің тарихы

Diplomatic mission of the U. S. to France

The Embassy of the United States in Paris is the diplomatic mission of the United States in the French Republic. The embassy is the oldest diplomatic mission of the United States. Benjamin Franklin and some of the other Founding Fathers were the earliest United States Ambassadors to France.

The four story chancery building, housing the ambassador's office, faces Avenue Gabriel and the gardens of the Champs Élysées; it is beside the Hôtel de Crillon. It was built in 1931, following the demolition of an existing building, the Hôtel Grimod de La Reynière. Designed by Delano & Aldrich – an American architectural firm based in New York City, New York – along with French architect Victor Laloux, the building has a façade that conforms with other buildings on the Place de la Concorde, as required by French law. Most of these offices were subsequently moved to the chancery building. It was then purchased by the banker James Mayer de Rothschild, whose family owned it for over a century, until 1950, when it was acquired by the U. S. government. Edmond James de Rothschild acquired the building in 1876. His estate sold it in 1948 to the U. S. government, and today it is the residence of the U. S. Ambassador to France.

As of December 18, 2017, sixty six people had represented, in France, the interests of the United States (or individual states prior to the 1789 ratification of the U. S. Constitution) as envoy, minister plenipotentiary, minister, ambassador or chargé d'affaires.